CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-11023

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 08, 2019 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

The agroot() function in cgraphobj.c in libcgraph.a in Graphviz 2.39.20160612.1140 has a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by graphml2gv.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Graphviz Graphviz 2.39.20160612.1140 (including) 2.39.20160612.1140 (including)
Graphviz Ubuntu bionic *
Graphviz Ubuntu cosmic *
Graphviz Ubuntu disco *
Graphviz Ubuntu eoan *
Graphviz Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Graphviz Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Graphviz Ubuntu groovy *
Graphviz Ubuntu hirsute *
Graphviz Ubuntu impish *
Graphviz Ubuntu trusty *
Graphviz Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Graphviz Ubuntu upstream *
Graphviz Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References